Blumhouse
Production
Directed by:
Stiles White
Starring by:
Olivia Cooke, Ana Coto, Douglas Smith, Darren Kagasoff
Well, I watched
this film at Malang when I had my Book Talk Show, after having the event we
goes to the cinema; me, my writer-friend Novan, and my cousins Mia and Tata. Too
bad our friend Nadya decided to go back to Jember so she can’t come with us…we
don’t understand why she prefers Jember than us…but it’s your lost girl hehehe..
A little bit confuse between Interstellar or this
film, but finally we pick this one because the showing time was match for our
next schedule to go to Batu, and I shout to myself, Yeeeeeaaahhh, I could make
preview for this film at no cost, finally…hehehe…other reason why I want to see
this film, tough it only get mediocre rating, it’s because I also make horror
comic with the same title this year…
It opens with two
little girl, Laine and Debbie, playing the board. Debbie give three rules for playing
it safely, “Always remember the three
rules: Don’t play the board on the grave, Don’t play it alone, and always say
good bye…”. The frame dissolved to present time when Debbie grown up as
teenagers and picked up by Debbie to come to school event. Debbie acting
weirdly and make Laine wonders. The opening scene ends with Debbie committing
suicide by hanging herself in the house.
Debbie’s death
shocking her friends, especially Laine, and curiosity drives them to
investigate her death. It leads Laine to invite other to make contact to Ouija
board and asked how’s she could died. The contact made them linked to spirit
with initial D.Z and Mother that keep following with terror everywhere they go
with a message, “Hii Friend…”
I have to raise
my thumb because this film give the shock that make audience yell or terrified
until nearly half periods of it without performing the ghost appearance at all.
The first look of the ghost happened when Laine see through the glass of oujia
tools. A ghost with stitched at her mouth and angry old woman that thrown up
everything. From the play that they’re doing at Debbie’s house, spirit that
haunts possessed and killed them one by one.
To solve the
problem, Laine try to find out who D.Z, the girl that named Dorris Zander, is which bring her to mental institution to meet Doris cousin, Paulina Zander. She
said that the spirit become stronger if they not release the stitched on Dorris
mouth, so they have to open it. It turns out that Paulina and Dorris was the
true evil and Mother just try to stop them, stitching Dorris mouth to hold evil
comes out from her.
The coolest thing
from the open word of little Debbie is it turns out that she’s playing the Ouija
on the grave, which is the house that become the grave of Dorris Zander, and playing
it alone, perhaps the adult concept that avoiding superstitious childhood that
believe Ouija board is a real supranatural board. So, she broke two of the
rules that she said herself…
How’s the end? I think it’s better if you watched it
on your own, tough I realized some of you who like horror movie probably could
guess the ends easily, but I do like the final scene when Laine putting a
dental floss to her mouth that make all audience sight, “YYYYAAAAAHHHHH….” Because
it remind them at the scene when Isabella get killed. The girl was having her
mouth stitched by dental floss also.
It’s good to see
Olivia Cook’s act, after she’s having a good one on The Quiet Ones as Jane Harper.
My friend, Novan, said Olivia's face was like Indonesian horror actress that often get main
character, Julie Estelle and how come he’s hoping Pulina Zander not died
because she’s the prettiest one?
Likewise, I saw some clumsiness on this film, at the opening scene when Debbie was about to get
suicide, she drags string of light from her bedroom and how come the light
still on after she pulled it and used by her as a hanging tool. The string of
light also remains on its original location at every next scene when Laine
entering Debbie’s room couple of time. And just take a look after Debbie closed
the back door. She jumped out to hear the sound of stove that turning on by
itself. The show it’s from above with a kettle next to it, but when the girl
turned off the stove, the kettle was on top of the ring.
My cousin, Mia, was
a doctor gives a comment about the needle that was used by Dorris
spirit to stitch Sarah’s mouth is way to big than normal surgery needle. The
shape is just like that, fishing angle similar-like, only smaller. And that
leads me to other thought, it's impossible for Laine to open the stitched because Dorris had died many years ago. Human lip was part of the
skin that surely rotten and decompose, therefore
the thread must be released itself according to time….
Onward, though we’re
having good times and laughing this film together, the
rules to playing safe has to be considered, “Always remember
the three rules: Don’t play the board on the grave, don’t play it alone, and
always say good bye…” So I say it now unto you….Good Bye….
